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Also available for errands and transportation. 569-2465 ADVANCE TRANSFER Local and long distance moving. Charge by job, not hour. Licensed and In- sured. 528-2180 CARTOONS CARICATURES BY JULIUS 2Q3-1723 FOR ANY OCCASION Enrich your Simcha (happy occasion) with a melodious, dynamic Israeli-English & Yiddish folk-singer guitarist. Please call 399-0079 Leading Literary Figure Joseph Leftwich Dies at 90 LONDON (JTA) Joseph Leftwish, the do- minant literary figure in Anglo-Jewry, died last week at age 90. Poet, translator, biog- rapher and journalist, Mr. Leftwich was a personal associate of many of the leading Jewish per- sonalities of the 20th Cen- tury, including Israel Zangwill, of whom he wrote a biography; Nahum Sokolow; Zeev Jabotinsky; Sholem Asch; and Stevan Zweig. A man of two cultures, he also corresponded with leading English literary figures, including George Bernard Shaw. Mr. Leftwich was born in Holland, the son of a Polish cobbler. His fam- ily emigrated to London when he was 5. Among his closest boyhood friends was Isaac Rosen- berg, one of the outstand- ing English poets of World War I who was kil- led on the battlefront. Mr. Leftwich's day school education ended when he was 14, but through friends and private studies he widened his familiarity with English and Yiddish literature. Before entering jour- nalism, he worked as a fur- rier, tailor and baker. His first published article, on working class life in Whitechapel, appeared in 1913. Literary journals began publishing his poems, leading to his first regular newspaper post on the Yiddish daily, Die Zeit. In 1920, Leftwich became the editor of the London bureau of the Jewish Tele- graphic - Agency. Through his transla- tions, he became known as "the ambassador of. Yiddish literature." He translated into English dozens of the giants of Milton Firestone Dead at 55, Edited KC Jewish Chronicle KANSAS CITY (JTA) — Milton Firestone, president and editor for 20 years of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, died March 6. He was 55. A native of Kansas City, Mr. Firestone attended the University of Kansas where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in econom- ics. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was president of the Jewish Union at the university. Mr. Firestone was a member of the American Jewish Press Association and had served as treasurer and vice president of the AJPA. He had received numerous awards from Bnai Brith lodges and chap- ters. He was a member of the board of directors of the Beth Shalom Congrega- tion of Kansas City and an associate member of the Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner Congrega- tion. Mr. Firestone was a member of the Jewish Community Center here and member and founding parent of the board of direc- tors of Kansas City's only Hebrew day school, the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy. JOSEPH LEFTWICH Yiddish literature.Much of his work was collected in anthologies — "Yis- roel," first published in 1933 and frequently re- printed; "The Golden Peacock," containing translations of Yiddish poetry, published in 1939; and the two-volume, "The Way We Think," containing essays by 80 Yiddish writers. For more than 40 years he was the permanent delegate of the Yiddish PEN Club- center in New York and on the executive of PEN, the world organization of writers, where he protested forcefully against the bloody purge of Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union. Until his late 80s, Mr. Leftwich was active as the director of the Federation of Jewish Relief Organiza- tions. He was also on the executive of British ORT and British OSE. Irving • Pfeifer Irving W. Pfeifer, an at- torney with offices in De- troit and Southfield, died March 9 at age 74. Born in New York, Mr. Pfeifer lived 60 years in De- troit. He was retired. He was graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1929 and was a member of the American, Michigan, Wayne County and Oak- land Bar Associations. He was admitted to practice be- fore the Supreme Court. Mr. Pfeifer was a former mediator for the Michigan Labor Relations board, a founding and charter member of the Louis Mar- shall Lodge of Bnai Brith and a member of Adat, Shalom Synagogue. He leaves his wife, Ruth; three daughters, Mrs. James (Royalin) Zachman, Mrs. Dolores Lasser and Mrs. Steven (Shirley) Sarason; and seven grandchildren. Services 10 a.m. today at Ira Kaufman Chapel." "Over 65 years of traditional service in the Jewish community with dignity and understanding." HEBREW MEMORIAL CHAPEL Ida Alpert Ida Alpert, a member of Jewish communal organ- izations, died March 9 at age 88. Born in Peabody, Mass., Mrs. Alpert was president of the Ida and Benjamin Al- pert Foundation created to provide scholarships for law students and other educa- tional grants. She was a 60-year member of Temple Beth El and its sisterhood. Mrs. Al- pert was a former officer of the Music Study Club, a member of the National Council of Jewish Women, Brandeis University Na- tional Women's Committee, Women's American ORT, Hadassah and CARIH of which she was a former board member. She leaves a son, Myron; a daughter, Mrs. Leo (Elaine) Stern; and one granddaughter. Services 11:30 a.m. today at Ira Kaufman Chapel. Dr. D. Hadesman Dr. Donald Hadesman, an internist, died March 5 at age 57. Born in Chicago, Ill., Dr. Hadesman lived 28 years in Detroit. He was chief of medicine at the Lake Shore Medical Center in Detroit for the past 27 years. He was a 1951 graduate of the University of Illinois Medical School. Dr. Hadesman was affiliated with the Ameri- can College of Surgeons, a fellow of the American College of Chest Physi- cians and the American, Michigan and Wayne County Medical Societies. He was a member of Cong. Shaarey Zedek. He leaves his wife, Natalie; four sons, Dr. Ste- ven, Dr. William, Robert and Andrew; two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Evelyn) Han- kin and Mrs. Meyer (Ruth) Gordon. Herman Mazer Herman Mazer, founder of Mazer Shoes in 1937, died March 3 at age 86. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Mr. Mazer lived 54 years in Detroit. He retired in 1980. He is survived by two sons, Albert and Edward R.; two brothers, Nathan and Al, both of Philadelphia; three sisters, Mary Felds- tein, Betty Rice and Rose Richmond, all of Philadel- phia; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. 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